Nocturnal Attrition

Operation Crusader was boiling around the Sidi Rezeg area, and General Freyberg's New Zealand 6th Brigade was dangerously exposed. The Kiwis were perched on the Sidi Rezeg ridge and airfield, sandwiched between the German 155th Infantry Regiment on the next ridge to the south and the Italians to the north …

1941-11-26

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Operation Crusader was boiling around the Sidi Rezeg area, and General Freyberg's New Zealand 6th Brigade was dangerously exposed. The Kiwis were perched on the Sidi Rezeg ridge and airfield, sandwiched between the German 155th Infantry Regiment on the next ridge to the south and the Italians to the north and west. Beyond the Bersaglieri Division to the west lay the 4th New Zealand Brigade. The Kiwi plan was a straight-forward night attack, westward along the crest of the Sidi Rezeg escarpment.

Sidi Rezegh, Libya

Operation Crusader was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War by the British Eighth Army, against the Axis forces in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel. The operation was intended to by-pass Axis defences on the Egyptian–Libyan frontier, defeat the Axis armoured forces and relieve the 1941 Siege of Tobruk.

New Zealand

Italian

Scenario Type = Standard